Controls and Indications
Before you play
It's strongly suggested that you adjust the size of UI, zoom speed and pan speed according to your screen size and needs. Music and sound effects are off by default. When turning them on please check that your device is not set to mute.
User settings menu is found in any level under "Settings" in the pause menu.
Overview
1. Arriving aircraft
Yellow flag. Aircraft arriving.
2. Departing aircraft
Green flag.
"22" -> Departure runway,
"TP945"-> Flight number,
"2" -> Departure sequence,
"04:30" -> Departure countdown (must be +/-15s for on time).
Aircrafts without flag cannot be selected cause they are currently parked.
3. Repositioning aircraft
Orange flag. Aircraft on tow. These aircrafts are subject to repositioning on the airport.
4. Exit indicator
Yellow lead lights indicating current target exit taxiway for arrivals. If it is not yellow it is a available exit taxiway.
5. Overview
-> Green: Departure runway.
-> Yellow: Arrival runway.
-> Mixed: Departure and arrival runway.
Panel can be folded on title.
6. Takeoff position
Green/red lead lights indicating take off position. At red take-off is not permitted. Green means wake-turbulence separation is fine and doesn't mean that runway is not blocked by any other traffic.
7. Next flights
Next departures and arrivals. For arrivals it states also exit taxiway and runway. For departures it states target take-off time and runway.
-> only one arrival and departure per runway (otherwise it would fill your screen!).
-> can be clicked to select flight.
8. General controls
Game speed controls, menu control with exit, settings, help, etc.
9. Messages
Message panel. Can be clicked to select flight (works only once per message). Panel can be folded on title.
Departure and Taxi
1. Flight controls
-> Close: Deselect current flight.
-> Reset: Resets current taxi clearance.
-> Cancel: Cancelling taxi, lineup or take off -clearance.
-> Hold short of: Hold before next clicked taxiway.
-> Line up 36R: Line up on runway 36R.
-> Take off 36R: Take off on runway 36R (can be combined out of a taxiclearance together with a lineup clearance).
2. Taxiway button
Click to add taxiway to temporary taxi path. Keep in mind that you cannot select another flight during the construction of a taxi clearance. Only way out is with cancel or close.
Taxiway width indication is located in the upper right corner on the button (Heavy/Medium/Light). Be careful when moving larger aircraft on a smaller taxiways. This is possible but wing-tip-clearance cannot be assured.
3. Holding point / stopbar / parking button
Click to execute now taxi clearance to given stop. Gives new flight control options for line-up and take-off.
4. Flight information
-> Aircraft type and size (Heavy, Medium, Light)
-> Departure runway
-> Take-off time
-> Departure sequence.
-> Take-off run. 15 seconds maximum or end of runway which ever is earlier.
5. Selected departing flight
Flags of non-selected flights are transparent. Selected flight is bright.
6. Taxi path
Yellow -> Temporary taxi path.
Blue -> currently inspected taxiway (the last clicked taxiway).
White -> crossing taxiways (from currently inspected taxiway). Here its possible to check the width of the taxiway by eye. Light, Medium and Heavy. In a future update we will implement an easier method to verify the width.
Pushback
1. Pushback window and number
Window with all possible pushback positions. Window appears only if the only way to move the aircraft is pushing it back.
2. Selected flight
Arrival
1. Exit buttons
Used to choose the exit for arriving flights. Red is active side of runway. Click again to change to the next exit. Exit indications on runway are described above. Exit buttons are only visible when aircraft is still airborne.
2. Target parking position
Blue rotating circle indicates target parking for selected flight. Depending on the difficulty level, the parking might be occupied. Usually the flight occupying will call ready for taxi within three minutes. If parking is occupied a addional information is displayed in the flight information window (top left panel).
3. Selected arriving flight
Runway
1. Waketurbulence countdown
Indicates time passed since previous departure on this runway. In addition the runway color in the overview panel is also set to red in order to remind that take-off is not permitted.
2. Countdown arrival
Countdown for next arrival on this runway. Changes text to "APCH" and color to yellow when the flight is on final approach.